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<span><p><span><b>Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.</b></span></p></span><p><span>C’mon, take the </span><span><i>E</i></span><span> pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). </span><span>E</span><span> practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’s hormonal transition, stretching the upper limits of homophonic translation to unleash the unexpected queer resonances of Louis Zukofsky’s </span><span><i>“A.”</i></span><span> </span><span><i>E</i></span><span><i> </i>alchemizes mishearing into a political possibility of glitching, noncompliance, and protest. Not a translation, but maximally trans, mishearing transmutes language to generate new possibilities: how hormones change the body; how relationships evolve, multiply, and implode over time. </span></p>